Profumo affair model Christine Keeler: a life in pictures

Christine Keeler, key figure in the 1963 Profumo Scandal which rocked the government, wearing a swimsuit as she walks along a beach, 1963 (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)
Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images

Profumo affair model Christine Keeler: a life in pictures

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Christine Keeler, key figure in the 1963 Profumo Scandal which rocked the government, wearing a swimsuit as she walks along a beach, 1963 (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)
Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images

Until they didn't. The society osteopath Stephen Ward was scapegoated in the Profumo scandal and branded a pimp. Fifty years on, as Andrew Lloyd Webber turns his story into a musical, Xan Brooks goes in search of the truth – by talking to the people who knew him best